New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1887-06-01
How to Avoid Premature Old
Age.

| HOW 20 AVO1O premature Ola
Age.
The following good advice is given.
by DR.. Benjamin Ward Richardson's:
| The rule for the prevention of senile
diseases are all personal. They
should begin in youth. It should be
a rule among grown.up persons never
to subject children to mental shocks
and unnecessary griets. When, in the
surrounding Of child life, some grave
calamity has occurred, it is best to
make the event as light as possible to
| the child, and certainly to avoid
thrilling it with sights and details
which stir it to the utmost, and in
the end only leave upon the mind
and heart incurable wounds and op-
pressions. Children should never be
taken to funerals, nor to sights that
cause a sense Of fear and dread combin-
ed with great grief, nor to sights which
call forth pain and agony IN man
or in the lower animals.
To avoid premature old age in
mature life, the following are import
ant points to remember:
| Grief anticipates age. Dwelling on
the inevitable past, forming vain hy-
! potheses as to what might have been if
this or that had or had not been, &C
| qulrlng a craze for recounting what
had occured-these acts do more harm
to future health and effort than many
things connected with real calamity.
Occupation and new pursuits are the
| best preventives for mental shock and
| bereavement.
Hate anticipates age. Hate keeps
the heart always at full tension. It
gives rise to oppression of the brain
and senses. 1t confuses the whole
man. 1t robs the stomach ofnervous
power, and, digestion being impaired,
the failure of life beings at once. Those,
therefore, who are born with this pas.
slon-and a good many, I fear, are
should give it up.
/ Jealousy anticipates age. The IA
cial expression of jealousy is old age,
in however young a face it may be
cast. Jealous preys upon and kills
the heart. So Jealous men are not
only unhappy, but broken-hearted,
and live short lives. l have never
known a man of jealous nature live
anything like a long or a useful life.
The prevention Of jealousy is diver
sion OF mind toward useful and I'M
selfish work.
Unchastity anticipates age. Every
thing that interferes with chastity
favors vital deterioration, while the
gross departure fro m chastity, leading
to specific and hereditary diseases,
are certain causes OF organic degenera-
ton and premature old age Thus
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lntemperance anticipates age. The
more social causes OF mental and
| physical organic diseases are investi-
gated, the more closely the origin OF
degenerative organic changes leading
to premature deterioration and decay
are questioned, the more closely does
1t come out that intemperance, often
not suspected by the person himself
who is implicated in it, so subtle is it's
influence, is at the root of evil.
When old age has really commenc-
ed, its march to final decay is best de-
layed by attention to those rules of
conservation by which life is sustain
ed with the least friction and the least
waste.
The prime rules for this purpose
! are:
10 subsist on light but nutritious
diet, with milk as the standard food,
but varied according to the season.
| To take food in moderate quantity
four times in the day, including a light
meal on going to bed.
To clothe warmly, but lightly, so
that the body may, in all seasons,
maintain an equal temperature To
keep the body in fair exercise and the
/ mind active and cheerful.
To maintain an interest in what is
going on in the world, and to take
/ part III reasonable labors and pleas.
ures, as though old age were not pres
ent.
/ To take plenty OF sleep during
sleeping hours, to spend nine hours in
| bed at the least, and to takecare dur
ing cold weather that the temperature
| of the bedroom is maintained at go.
degrees Fahrenheit
10 avoid passion, excitement, lux.
/ ury.
Pet Phrases iii the Pulpit.
From, the Christian Advocate
All who speak or pray in public
would do well to look closely into the
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